Both products debuted at the data protection vendor’s 2020 VeeamON conference, where CTO Danny Allan (pictured) also previewed a forthcoming edition of Backup for Microsoft Office 365 featuring enhanced Teams support.

Is there anything more refreshing on a summer day than a cool glass of sharkleberry fin juice? Matt, Rich, and guest host Dave Seibert would tell you if they knew what the heck a sharkleberry fin is. What they can tell you about is the addition of Salesforce Essentials to Ingram’s cloud marketplace, the surprising resilience of Ingram’s U.S. SMB business, and NinjaRMM’s latest update.

Sales of client hardware through the channel rose by double digits thanks to spiking demand for work-from-home gear. Sales of storage products, however, dropped by double digits amid declining infrastructure spending.

Now may be a good time to get in on the ground floor of building a managed services business around IoT solutions.

The distributor plans to make further Salesforce applications available to partners in the future in conjunction with a strategic effort to offer “more as a service,” according to global cloud VP Nimesh Davé (pictured).

IT providers stand to gain more long-term business relationships by ensuring clients are both empowered with the best cybersecurity practices and compliant with regulators.

Erick and Rich explore the money-making implications of SonicWall’s new branch office networking solution, what MSPs can learn from SpaceX’s rigorous safety processes, and a brilliant DIY invention that automatically shuts off your webcam if it shows you’re not wearing pants.

New storage solutions from HPE, a new name for Rackspace, and a new way to stop accidentally revealing on videoconferences that you aren’t wearing pants are among the stories we took our sweet time bringing your way this week.

Enhancements in the update include an upgraded scripting engine with expanded automation capabilities and a new API that lets third-party software perform actions on endpoints instead of just monitor them.

New research shows the desire to remain a trusted adviser is a top driver for MSPs to deliver more cloud-based managed services.